Inda may kelly



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

INDA MAY KELLY, OF WASHINGTON, KANSAS.A

DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,957, dated February 7, 1899.

l Application iiledOctober 30, 1697. Serial No. 656,960. @To model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may. concern:

Be it known that I, INDA MAY KELLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vashington, in the county of Washington and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drawers and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use -the same.

My invention relates to a novel form of drawer and case; and the object is to provide a simple, cheap, and durable drawer that may be conveniently manipulated with a minimum amount of exertion.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure l isa longitudinal section of a drawer and case embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective detail, partly in section, of the case and oneof the guide-rollers. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the upper end of the case, showing the rollers in position and the sides of the drawer in section.

l represents a rectangular case closed on all sides except its front, where the drawer 2 slides in'.

3 3 represent elevated cylindrical rails fixed parallel with each other in the bottom Il of the easel, and 5 5 represent grooved rollers journaled in the brackets 6 6, fixed-to the bottom 7 of the drawer 2. A pair of similar parallel rails 8 8 are also fixed to the under side of the 'bottom of the drawer 2 to engage the grooved rollers 9 9, journaled in the brackets 10 10, xed in the forward end of the loottom of the case 1.

The top of the case is provided with parallel rails 2l 2l, which engage the rollers 22 22, fixed on the top edge of the sides 23 23, and 24 24 represent rails fixed on the top edge of the sides to engage the grooved rollers 25 25,

fixed on the under side of the top of the case. Each of the rollers 25-is fixed on an independent shaft 26, as will be seen by the detail view in Fig. 2, and the ends of the shaft are journaled in sleeves 27 27, which are fixed to the upper ends of coiled springs 28 28, having their lower ends seated in the recesses 29 29.

30 30 represent hooks formed witheyes on their upper ends, which encompass the shaft 26, and their hooked ends engage the pins 3l 3l to compress the springs and confine the roller to the path of the rails; but when it isl desired to remove the drawer from the oase the hooks 30 are released from the pins and the springs elevate the rollers out of the path of the rollers 25 25 to permit the drawer to be removed. A t all other times the rollers 25 come in contact with the rollers 22 and act as a stop or limit for the'forward movement of the drawer.

Although I have specically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from. the spirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

The combination with the case, the stationary parallel rails 3 and 21, and the stationary roller 10, of the roller 25 fixed on the shaft 26, the sleeves 27 27 forming bearings for saidshaft, the springs 28 supporting said sleeves,

INDA MAY KELLY.

Witnesses:

NE1L E. GRAHAM, EMMA HoDGEs. 

